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The Trump administration and the government of Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have devised a Middle East peace plan without the involvement of Palestinian leaders, and have concluded agreements to normalize relations between Israel and a widening circle of Arab regimes -- the so-called "Abraham Accords." What are the prospects for this strategy? Can it succeed in breaking the deadlock in Middle East peacemaking? Or is it likely to exacerbate existing tensions...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Omar Dajani, normalize relations, widening circle, Arab regimes, Abraham...
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Many of us wonder what improvement (if any) of our government’s Israel-Palestine policy might happen as a result of Biden’s election. Listening to a clip of Biden speaking as a Senator some years back yields a first guess of “none.” Abunimah and Hixson discuss pertinent policy change questions in great detail. Abunimah is the co-founder and executive director of the widely acclaimed publication The Electronic Intifada (https://electronicintifada.net/), a nonprofit, independent online...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, Israel's Armor,...
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Today we focus on anti-Semitism, the Zionists definition of which has been broadened to include almost all criticism of Israel as well as support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The charge of anti-Semitism has been weaponized and is being used to squelch free speech on campuses as well as the wider community. This does a disservice not only to those are using legitimate, non violent actions to resist the Israeli occupation, but a disservice to the Jewish people...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Peter Beinart, Nadia El-Haj, Rashid Khalidi, Antisemitism, Anti-Semitism,...
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Dec 27, 2020
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Today we feature an in-depth interview with one of the most prodigious proponents of the Palestinian narrative who just happens to be an Israeli historian. Of course we are talking about Professor Ilan Pappe, whose major work, the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, is a meticulously documented account of Israel’s military assault on Palestine in 1948. In this interview today, Pappe discusses recent events and political issues in Palestine with Michael Spath of the Indiana Center for Middle East...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ilan Pappe, Pappé, Ethnic Cleansing, Michael Spath, Indiana Center for...
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Dec 20, 2020
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Today we take a long look at the Palestinian struggle within the context of Israel’s recent campaign to "normalize" relations with a myriad of corruptly ruled Arab States, none of them friends of Palestine. We feature a conversation with Grant Smith of the Washington Report on the Middle East and As’ad Abu Khalil, Professor of Political Science at California State University. As you will hear, Professor Khalil, a Palestinian raised in Lebanon, has deep roots within the Middle...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Grant Smith, As'ad Abu Khalil, Asad Abu Khalil, Asad Khalil, normalize...
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Dec 13, 2020
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This is Part 2 of Ali Abunimah speaking at the NY Forum on The Deal of The Century and the Ongoing Imperialist Attacks on Palestine. The full description, copied from Part 1, is as follows: Today we bring back one of the most progressive, and passionate Palestinian activists at work today in the US and around the world: Ali Abunimah, co-founder and driving force behind the Palestinian news service, The Electronic Intifada. He spoke at the New York Forum a few weeks ago for an hour and a half....
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, New York Forum, Deal of the Century,...
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Dec 6, 2020
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Today we bring back one of the most progressive, and passionate Palestinian activists at work today in the US and around the world: Ali Abunimah, co-founder and driving force behind the Palestinian news service, The Electronic Intifada. He spoke at the New York Forum a few weeks ago for an hour and a half. He was introduced and prompted by a woman identifying herself as Maryanne of the People's Plan, NYC (peoplesculturalplan.org). Usually we would edit such a long presentation down to fit into...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, New York Forum, Deal of the Century,...
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Nov 29, 2020
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The Palestinian narrative is most genuine and most powerful when Palestinians tell their stories of resilience following the ethnic cleansing of their land by Israel in 1948. The love of their land and culture the hold that that love has over their lives resonates generation after generation, even for those who now, years later, live the diaspora. This love of their land and culture is the driving force behind their resistance to occupation. We came across an interview of Dr. Ahmed Abdulmadgeed...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ahmed Abdulmageed, Michael Spath, Indiana Center, resilence, ethnic...
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Nov 22, 2020
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This annual conference was held on 11/7/2020 at the Palestine Center in Washington DC. Obviously, it's a very difficult subject. We will hear these voices: Said Arikat (moderating the panel), physician/activist Mustapha Barghouti, journalist Noar Odeh, and historian Ilan Pappe. For more conference content, go to: https://thejerusalemfund.org/events/upcoming/2020-palestine-center-annual-conference-the-future-of-palestine
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Said Arikat, Mustapha Bargouti, Noar Odeh, Ilan Pappe, Future of...
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Nov 15, 2020
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This week our feature presentation is a re-broadcast of an interview shared with This Week In Palestine by the online video show The Arabic Hour. Moderator, local Palestinian activist, Nancy Murray, speaks with Palestinian activist, Nidal Al Azraq, and Black activist Ajamu Dillihunt focusing on the parallels between the Palestinian and Black struggles for freedom and equality. The conversation begins with Introductions by Nancy Murray. Regarding the audio distortion: No, it's not your radio!...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nancy Murray, Nidal Al Azraq, Ajamu Dillihunt, parallels, Arabic Hour,...
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Nov 8, 2020
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We spend a good deal of time on This Week In Palestine analyzing and exposing the efforts of the Israeli Lobby to counter attempts by Palestinian organizations and voices to educate and organize on behalf of the Palestinian people who dare to resist the occupation of the Palestinian homeland by the Israeli military. One of the major efforts of this Israeli project is the censorship of speakers, forums, and organizing efforts by pro Palestinian organizations on US university campuses. It is a...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Heike Shotten, Leila Farsakh, Andrew Leong, Isaac Kamola, free speech,...
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Nov 1, 2020
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In this new book, Israeli historian Adam Raz shatters the “conspiracy of silence” that surrounds the widespread Jewish looting of Palestinian property that took place in 1948. Drawing from materials he found in more than 30 archives, Raz documents how in the period around the 1948 War, Jewish civilians – who after the war became the founding generation of the state of Israel – pillaged private Palestinian property throughout the land. Raz also documents how, as the looting took place in...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Adam Raz, Looters, pillage, conspiracy of silence, founding generation,...
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Oct 25, 2020
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This morning our Palestinian voice is that of Linda Sarsour, an unabashed Palestinian Muslim organizer and activist who was born and still lives in Brooklyn, NY. In conversation with Michael Spath, director of the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, she discusses her history of activism and her recent book, We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Linda Sarsour, MIchael Spath, Bystanders, Love and Resistance, Truth and...
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Oct 18, 2020
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This week we feature one of those historically great voices of the Palestinian people, Columbia University professor Edward Said, who passed away in 2003. He is recognized as one of the most prominent intellectuals of our time, and his interviews and writings are timeless. That is why we often return to Edward Said on this program. His voice needs to be heard today as much as when he was alive. He continues to teach. This morning you will hear Edward Said interviewed on Dutch television by...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Edward Said, 2003, Columbia University, Palestinian intellectual, gifted...
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Oct 11, 2020
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Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill engages Columbia University Historian Rashid Khalidi in a 55-minute discussion of the concepts and claims in Khalidi's pathbreaking book, The Hundred Years War on Palestine. For a longer, extremely thorough talk by Khalidi alone, watch the video at https://youtu.be/yp1hxZMocS4. Explaining the book's title, the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, 100 years before Khalidi intended to finish this book. (It's still a hundred if you round to the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Rashid Khalidi, Marc Lamont Hill, Hundred Years War, Palestine, Balfour,...
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Oct 4, 2020
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This week we continue our examination of the Israeli Lobby which, for decades has distorted both the Israeli and Palestinian narrative to advance Israel’s colonization of Palestine. Its enormous power was manifested this past week when it pressured Facebook, Zoom and ultimately YouTube to deny their platforms to broadcast a pro Palestinian forum at San Francisco University. Backed by millions of dollars of funding, the Israeli Lobby has established a stranglehold on US Institutions of...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, Mohammed Mohammed, Apartheid, Israeli Lobby, Palestine...
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Sep 27, 2020
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Israel is spending millions of dollars to squash Campus organizing along with educational programs that challenge the fraudulent Israeli narrative. The fact that the Lobby already has the US government in its pocket is not exactly news. Now it's aiming at the Academy. Criticism of Israel is labeled anti-Semitic, and that trope triggers a reflexive response to once again make Israel the victim rather than the aggressor. This week we examine the work of the Palestinian grassroots uprising which...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Peter Beinart, Dimi Khalidi, Foundation for Middle East...
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Sep 20, 2020
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Today we explore the use of propaganda to control the political discourse. In particular the use of propaganda by the Israeli Lobby to alter historical facts and put forth a narrative that, though false, suits their imperialistic agenda. Sut Jhally, Professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has studied and taught the issue for years, and was interviewed in a Washington Report on the Middle East webinar by Grant Smith. If you have not seen Sut Jhally’s film, the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Sut Jhally, Grant Smith, propaganda, Israeli Lobby, Occupation of the...
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Sep 13, 2020
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Today, Ali Abunimah joins Michael Spath, the director of the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace in conversation discussing current developments in Palestine. Israelis’ ongoing weekly protests against Netanyahu’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis ignore the brutal scene unfolding daily in the occupied West Bank. There have been at least 70 army raids over the last 2 weeks, including an Aug. 27 attack on the al-Fawwar refugee camp where a family was severely beaten and its money stolen.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, Michael Spath, Indiana Center, Khari...
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Sep 6, 2020
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Today, increasingly, Rappers and Hip Artists are viewed as modern day truth tellers lauded and sometimes taunted for telling it like it is. Their dissection of our various cultures is often prophetic. After years of struggle Rap and Hip Hop artists have assumed their well-earned place in our artistic culture. Today we feature a conversation with Palestinian Rap artist, Tamer Nafar, one of the founders of the celebrated Palestinian Rap group, DAM, whose truth telling has created great...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Tamer Nafar, Salim Barameh, rap, hip hop, DAM, Palestinian Podcast, Truth...
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Aug 30, 2020
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Coronavirus has not even slowed Israel's murderous oppression of Palestinians. Sharqawi and Estapé discuss its impact in Palestine, how the Palestinians are organizing themselves to continue resisting the occupation, and how we can help to put an end to international complicity with the Israeli apartheid regime. Plus a Mondoweiss article:If you care about Palestinian human rights, the Democratic Convention last week was a total heartbreak. The issue was never mentioned in any of the primetime...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Fayrouz Sharqawi, Alys Samson Estapé, COVID-19, Gaza, Coronavirus,...
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Aug 23, 2020
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Tom Suarez has written an important book exploring the roots of Zionism, a history largely denied by mainstream Zionists because of its dependence on terrorism to advance its agenda against the Palestinian people. The book is meticulously documented from British military archives, but despite its authenticity, Suarez is attacked almost everywhere he speaks or tries to speak. The accepted Zionist history and narrative that is proclaimed today is largely based on myth that cannot be documented...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Tom Suarez, Zionism, terrorism, British military archives, Argyle Street...
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Aug 16, 2020
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This week we feature a conversation with Palestinian attorney, Diana Buttu, and Middle East analyst, Phyllis Bennis recorded at a British roundtable called Palestine Deep Dive. Among other things they discuss the possible impact of the upcoming US presidential election on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This conversation was recorded, May 1 st , 2020.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Phyllis Bennis, Diana Buttu, Palestine Deep Dive, US presidential...
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Aug 9, 2020
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This week we feature a conversation with one of the truly great investigative journalists of our time, Max Blumenthal. To guarantee his independence as a journalist he founded the Grayzone Project (thegrayzone.com), which allowed him to cut ties with the controlling corporate media. Because of that, his reporting is less exposed in main stream media, which too often refuses to accurately cover such areas as Venezuela, Syria, and of course Palestine. His books include The 51 Day War: Ruin and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Max Blumenthal, Michael Spath, Grayzone Project, Truth and Justice Radio
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Aug 2, 2020
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Hanan Ashwari has been on the PLO Executive Committee and has often served as the voice of the PLO for decades and she is the featured Palestinian voice this morning, in conversation with Podcast producer Salem Barameh. Unfortunately the entire conversation is longer than the time we have, but you will hear most of it.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Hanan Ashrawi, Salem Barameh, Palestine Podcast, PLO
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Jul 26, 2020
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Josh Ruebner, who currently teaches at Georgetown University, for many years worked in the trenches of Washington, DC lobbying Congress on behalf of the Palestinian People for The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a national coalition of hundreds of groups working to advocate for Palestinian rights and a shift in US policy. Given this Congress, can you imagine a more difficult mission? He is also author of Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Verso, 2013) and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Josh Ruebner, Michael Spath, annexation, Indiana Center for Peace in the...
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Jul 19, 2020
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Rula has received accolades for her groundbreaking work in Italy, the United States and across the Middle East. She was the first foreign anchorperson in the history of television news in Italy, where she went on to host multiple political talk shows. Since moving to the United States in 2009, Rula has been an on-air foreign policy analyst for MSNBC and a contributor to the Daily Beast, Newsweek and Salon.com, where her articles have reflected a deep knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Rula Jabreal, Salem Barameh, Palestinian Podcast, amazing Palestinian...
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Jul 12, 2020
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It's a difficult time for Palestinians, but then again, under occupation, it's always a difficult time for Palestinians. That is why we continue to marvel at the resiliency and passion for their land that seems to buoy them to continue their resistance against great odds. We certainly see that in Amer Zahr, our presenter this week, who gives voice to that resiliency and resistance of his people. Amer Zahr is an Arab-American comedian, speaker, writer, academic, and adjunct professor of Law. He...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amer Zahr, Salem Barameh, Palestinian Podcast, growing up Arab, Truth and...
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Jul 5, 2020
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We begin this week with the voice of Noura Erakat, a frequent guest on This Week In Palestine. She is a Palestinian attorney and professor at Rutgers University, and the cousin of Ahmed Erakat. Ahmed, 27, was recently gunned down and left unattended to bleed to death at a checkpoint on the West Bank, on his way to pick up his sister on her wedding day. He himself was to be married in the very near future. That checkpoint, like many others, cannot even remotely be claimed to protect Israelis...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ahmed Erakat, Noura Kerakat, Hatem Bazian, Dale Sprusansky, Democracy...
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Jun 28, 2020
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Policing in America is under intense scrutiny in the wake of continuing demonstrations and non-violent displays of rage over the shooting of unarmed Black people. The restructuring of policing and our understanding of safety and security are at the heart of that scrutiny. The militarized, discriminatory practice of policing which is geared to control society has not and will not provide security and safety for everyone in that society. How did we get to this warped concept of security and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jeff Halper, Policing in America, War Against the People, Law and Order,...
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Jun 21, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud's new book is These Chains Will Be Broken. He observes that almost all Palestinians are imprisoned in one way or another. Before this: the bullies are at it again, this time in a massive effort to shut down the International Criminal Court. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel’s prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course of the ongoing Israeli military occupation. Yet rarely has the story of their experiences in...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ramzy Baroud, Israeli jails, Palestinian prisoners, These Chains Will Be...
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Jun 14, 2020
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In this conversation, recorded recently at the Palestine Center in Washington DC, Rashid Khalidi discusses the content of his latest book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 . Khalidi, a Palestinian-American, is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. His past books include Resurrecting Empire: Western...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Rashid Khalidi, Mohammad Mohammad, Palestine Center, Washington DC, Truth...
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Jun 7, 2020
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Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the PLO in negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian organizations. She has since been associated with Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). She currently lives in Ramallah. Here is Diana Buttu speaking at Harvard Law School on a "one-state solution." Before this, we begin with comments from Phil Weiss writing in Mondoweiss concerning Joe Biden’s...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Diana Buttu, Harvard Law School, PLO, Ramallah, one-state solution, Phil...
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May 17, 2020
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Our feature presentation today is a conversation between Israeli historian Ilan Pappé and Maha Rod of KinderUSA. They discuss the current situation in Gaza and throughout the West Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic, a matter of elevated concern, to say the least. We begin with Maha Rod outlining the work of KinderUSA in Gaza. Before this, we introduce the ongoing story of the Tufts University administration’s attack on Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Once again, the Zionist forces...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ilan Pappé, Maha Rod, KinderUSA, COVID-19, Gaza, West Bank, Tufts...
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May 3, 2020
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U.S. presidents, one after another, along with their flacks, continue ad nauseum to claim they support a "two-state solution" for the peoples living in historic Palestine. Enlightened Israelis and Palestinians know very well that such an option, if it ever existed, has long been foreclosed by Israel's ever-growing settler incursions, its apartheid wall, and much more. With generous U.S. support, Israel's so-called leadership has exploited the illusion of such an option to cheat its...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jeff Halper, Awad Abdulfattah, Michael Spath, One State, two-state...
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Apr 26, 2020
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This week we present a webinar conversation sponsored by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. It features Dimi Khalidi, founder and director of the legal advocacy group, Palestine Legal; Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East peace; and Peter Beinart, prolific journalist and author. They discuss the rampant ongoing attempts by various Jewish organizations to silence criticism of Israel on US campuses, and in general squash Palestinian advocacy. We begin with Peter...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Dimi Khalidi, Palestine Legal, Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East...
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Apr 18, 2020
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The Corona Virus pandemic dominates the world’s attention and the media’s focus. So it is also in Palestine. This week we will present an inside look into the effects of the virus in Palestine, and particularly in Bethlehem where COVID-19 has hit the hardest. Palestinians face the double whammy of fighting the pandemic, while resisting the occupation that brings the military and Illegal Jewish Settlers into their space. You are about to hear a recent Skype conversation between Abed...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Abed Abusroar, Michael Spath, corona virus, COVID-19, pandemic,...
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Apr 12, 2020
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In February, a federal lawsuit filed in Washington, DC, by 13 Palestinian and American activists accuses President Donald Trump and his Middle East adviser Jared Kushner of violating Palestinian civil and human rights. Also named in the suit are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Miriam Adelson, the wife of billionaire settler financier Sheldon Adelson; Israeli lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and 13 others. The action targets...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Martin McMahon, lawsuit, Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu, Cuomo, Adelson,...
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Apr 5, 2020
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A new book titled The Movement and the Middle East offers the first assessment of the controversial and ultimately debilitating role of the Arab-Israeli conflict among left-wing activists during a turbulent period of American history. Today we feature the author of that book, historian Michael Fischbach, speaking at the Palestine Center in Washington DC. Michael Fischbach shows how, as the 1970s wore on, the cleavages emerging within the American Left widened, weakening the Movement and leaving...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Michael Fischbach, left-wing, American left, Movement, Middle East,...
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Mar 22, 2020
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This Week In Palestine is produced at WZBC-FM, a student operated radio station at Boston College. Due to the pandemic, Boston College students have been sent home and will not return until Autumn 2020. Therefore, programming has been suspended at WZBC for the immediate future. We welcome you to access our permanent archive at truthandjusticeradio.org: click on “This Week in Palestine Archive.” You’ll find our past broadcasts all the way back to 1-6-2008. Here are the three pieces we have...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, COVID-19, Bethlehem, Abed Abusroar, Al Rowwad, Aida Refugee Camp, Yasser...
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Mar 15, 2020
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Speaking at Tufts University, Professor Feldman takes a long look at Palestinian Refugee Camps. Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. She explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future conditions. Her book is "Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics" (UC Press, 2018).
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ilana Feldman, Palestinian Refugee Camps, protracted displacement, 70...
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Mar 8, 2020
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We found a fascinating British show called "Head to Head", which features sort of a debate format. This particular week featured a discussion between Zionists Schlomo Ben Ami, and Paul Charney facing Palestinian attorney Diana Buttu and new historian and author, Avi Schlaim. It is moderated by Mehdi Hassan and takes place at the Oxford Union in the UK. See whether you notice any parallels between the so-called "Liberal Zionists," who do much of the talking in this episode,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Head to head, Mehdi Hassan, Schlomo Ben Ami, Paul Charney, Diana Buttu,...
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Mar 1, 2020
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Today we take a long look at the history of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations from a man who was inside the room for many of those historic events, Khaled Elgindy. Elgindy was a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. He previously served as an advisor to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on permanent status negotiations with Israel from 2004 to 2009, and was a key participant in the Annapolis negotiations held throughout 2008. His most recent book is...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Khaled Elgindy, Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, Blind Spot, Balfour,...
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Feb 23, 2020
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Today, as is the purpose of this program, you will hear from a couple of muted voices that speak truth to power. We feature journalist and author Max Blumenthal, a great journalist and author whose Middle East insights are prolific and insightful, but due to their honesty, are rarely given exposure any more in the mainstream media. We also feature Syracuse University professor and author Dr. Osama Khalil. They spoke at the Annual Conference at the Palestine Center last November on the so-called...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Max Blumenthal, Osama Khalil, Deal of the century, Palestine Center,...
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Feb 16, 2020
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It is said that converts are the best evangelists. In the case of Israeli author and activist, Miko Peled, that certainly is true. Born to a prominent Israeli military family, his father was a General who was a major figure in both wars against Palestine, in 1948 and 1967, but later in life became a critic of the Israeli state as he became aware of its rampant Zionism and apartheid. His son, Miko, has gone further, and has become a sharp critic of, and major spokesman against Zionist injustice....
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Miko Peled, the General's son, Zionism, apartheid, colonialism, Holy Land...
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Feb 9, 2020
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The power of the Israeli lobby is manifesting itself all through American society today. It certainly has been felt locally, as Cambridge and Somerville experienced when activist groups tried diligently for months to get Israel-boycott legislation and resolutions through their City Councils only to witness a last minute blitzkrieg by the well-financed Israeli lobby that faced down both city councils. We also see the power of the Lobby in systematically flooding state legislatures all across the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, Israel Lobby, Israeli Lobby, Tom Abowd, BDS, Israel's Armor
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Feb 2, 2020
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Feb 2, 2020
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Dr. Slaughter has been collaborating with Health workers in Gaza and The West Bank for several years and serves on the Board of Gaza Mental Health Center Foundation. He has just returned from an International Health Conference In Palestine. We sat down with Bill to talk about the conference, his work, and his travels into and out of Gaza.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Bill Slaughter, William Slaughter, Gaza, Missiles, Bad Water, March of...
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Jan 26, 2020
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Jan 26, 2020
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Our featured speaker today is Joseph Massad, one of our clearest and most articulate voices. Massad discusses "Trump's Deal of the Century: the Final Phase of the Oslo Accords." Here's an informal summary of the "deal": (1) the PLO, or now, PA is designated as the sole representative of all Palestinians, of course snuffing out Hamas and all dissenters; then (2) in "exchange" for a devastating package of even more crippling one-sided concessions by the PA, all...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Joseph Massad, Trump, Deal of the Century, Oslo Accords, PLO, PA, Hamas,...
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Jan 19, 2020
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Jan 19, 2020
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Today the Palestinian voice you will hear is that of our old friend Mazin Qumsiyeh speaking at the Community Church of Boston. Mazin has a doctorate in Biology, and taught at both Duke and Yale Universities, but is back in Palestine at Bethlehem University where he has founded the Palestine Natural History Museum. Mazin came to Cambridge to speak at the annual Science for Palestine Conference at MIT. Most of us know Mazin as an activist, but he is a passionate scientist who sees the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Community Church of Boston, Palestine Natural History...
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Jan 12, 2020
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Jan 12, 2020
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Today we finish our coverage of the November 12, 2019 Criminalizing Dissent Conference held at Umass Amherst. This was an enormously important conference, held despite the fact that the Zionist lobby as well as University officials tried to stop it from even happening. They were not successful, and with the help of a court order, the conference proceeded. The auditorium was packed, as was a similar conference held in the Spring of 2019, and as you will hear, this one was also challenged by...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Criminalizing Dissent, BDS, Zionist lobby, Linda Sarsour, Time Wise,...
